Strauss-Kahn facing US gang rape probe

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s legal woes deepened as French prosecutors opened a preliminary probe into accusations he took part in a gang rape in the US.

Prosecutors in Lille, where Strauss-Kahn and three others are charged in a vice case, said in a statement the probe centred on an incident “that could be described as gang rape” that took place in Washington, DC, in Dec 2010.

Strauss-Kahn, two businessmen and a police chief have been charged with “aggravated pimping in an organised gang” in Lille for allegedly organising a prostitution ring for orgies in France, the US and elsewhere.